Working
time and absences

Working hours

Teaching and research staff

The annual
workload for teaching and research personnel is 1,624 hours. An employee is
responsible for his/her own working hours and its use for the tasks in the
working plan. If necessary, a superior and an employee will examine the
implementation of the working plan and work results within the framework of the
total workload during a term.

Each employee will prepare a working plan in co-operation with his/her superior
each year. In preparing the working plan, consideration will be given to the
person's participation in teaching, research and other tasks.

A unit's working plans should be coordinated so that each person in turn will
have an opportunity for a research period free from teaching and administrative
work.

The working plan should take into account any
longer leaves of absence, such as a parental leave, which may have a
substantial impact on the content of the working plan. Following longer leaves of absence,
the implementation of the working plan prior to the leave of absence will be
reviewed and any necessary changes to the working plan will be made. If, once
the academic year is underway, a new task is agreed upon that cannot be
considered to be included in the overall task assignments already detailed in
the working plan, the working plan shall be revised to accommodate the new
task.

Other personnel

The regular number of working hours is an average of no more than 7
hours and 21 minutes per day and 36 hours and 45 minutes per week.

Annual holiday

Other personnel

The regular number of working hours is an average of no more than 7
hours and 45 minutes per day and 36 hours and 45 minutes per week.

Those
persons who are subject to the working time regulations for teaching and
research personnel are subject to regulations concerning annual holiday in
universities' collective agreement only with regard to holiday pay. Holiday pay
is paid in connection with July salary. Holiday pay is determined according to
the salary that the person in question receives in June.

Holiday
pay for a salaried employee is:

4% of the salary for the month preceding the month in which holiday pay is
paid times the number of full months on which holiday pay is based if the
employee has been employed by the present employer or another university for
less than a year at the end of the year on which holiday pay is based.

5% of the salary for the month preceding the month in which holiday pay is
paid times the number of full months on which holiday pay is based if the
employee has been employed by the same employer, another Finnish university or
research institute comparable to a university or university hospital for at
least a year.

6% of the salary for the month preceding the month in which holiday pay is
paid times the number of full months on which holiday pay is based if the
employee before the beginning of the holiday period (no later than 31 May) has
been in employment entitling the employee to holiday pay for at least fifteen years.

In calculating the 15-year employment period full-time employment will be taken
into account:

1. in the service of the employing university,

2. in the service of another Finnish university,

3. in the service of the Finnish state, excluding time in military service or
alternate service, crisis management and peacekeeping tasks or leave other than
sick leave or family leave according to Chapter 4 section 1 of the Employment
Contracts Act and

4. in the service of another employer in Finland or abroad in tasks insofar as
these are of essential benefit in performing the employee's tasks.

At the start of employment an employee must list previous work experience that
the employee wants to be taken into account in granting annual holiday
benefits.

Sick leave

An employee
has the right to miss work if he/she is unable to perform tasks because of
disability owing to sickness or a handicap or injury. The matter must be
reported immediately to the employer.

The paid part of sick leave is as follows:

Length of employment

Maximum
length of sick leave

under 1 month

1+9 weekdays, 50% of salary

1 month - less than 1 year

40
calendar days a year and after that 75% of salary up to a maximum of 365
calendar days

1 year - less than 5 years

50
calendar days a year and after that 75% of salary up to a maximum of 365
calendar days

5 years -

60
calendar days a year and after that 75% of salary up to a maximum of 365
calendar days

If an employee transfers from one university to another university or a
research institute comparable to a university or a university hospital,
previous work experience will be taken into account in the length of employment
in calculating the paid part of sick leave.

Other absences

Paid days
off:

50th and 60th birthdays

own wedding day and registration of partnership day

day of a close relative's funeral

maximum of one day owing the death of a family member

sickness of a family member besides a child who is under the age of ten or
disabled if leave is necessary to arrange or provide care